Emotional First Aid Limited

We don’t believe that attending to the emotional needs of others is the same as attending to a physical injury, as in conventional First Aid. Or, that any one person can fulfil such a responsibility for their colleagues with only limited training. We therefore encourage everyone to be given the resources to understand and appreciate themselves, and to build cultures that are emotionally intelligent. Cultures that are emotionally aware, based on approaches that are trauma informed, which are person centred and based on human rights. Qualities that are recommended by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations.

Emotional First Aid has been created, designed and developed alongside experts by experience, and our training encourages and equips people to explore their emotional worlds.

Emotional First Aid begins with an acknowledgement that there are only three real certainties regarding our emotional and psychological worlds. That we all have feelings, we all have bodies and we all live lives. With each of these three aspects of a person being so complex alone, that when they interact, as they do every second of every day, it is impossible for there to be any universal truths. We are all therefore free to explore, free to make discoveries, make choices and free to make sense of our own unique Life Landscapes, using the Three C’s as our compass.

Our training gives people the opportunity to explore the strengths and skills that they already possess, to reflect on how the human mind and body is equipped to respond to life events and, how human connection is the cornerstone of health and happiness.

In taking our starting point as; bodies + feelings + lives = human, we liberate us all to explore all the many beliefs, possibilities and opportunities that exist to explain why we feel and what we can do to affect our feelings. With beliefs such as mental health being just one of them. One that, like many of the others, brings comfort and relief to some, but not all.